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Robert James Lee FRCP (9 November 1841, St James Parish, London[1] – 17 November 1924, West Drayton, Middlesex[2]) was an English physician. He published papers on diseases of children[1] and on the "treatment of pulmonary phthisis by antiseptic vapours".[2]

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He had two younger brothers, James Irwin Lee (1843–1880) and John Francis Lee (1850–1905), both of whom graduated from the University of Cambridge.[3][4] The father of the three brothers was the obstetrician Robert Lee, who held the chair of midwifery at St George's Hospital.[5]

After education at King's College School and Brighton College,[6] Robert James Lee matriculated in May 1859 at Caius College, Cambridge.[1] During his undergraduate years he was both a runner and an oarsman. He read natural sciences and graduated with a B.A. in 1863. After studying medicine in London at St George's Hospital and at St Thomas Hospital and in Paris, he graduated with his M.B. degree in 1865.[6] In 1866 he qualified as M.R.C.P.[2] In 1869 he graduated from the University of Cambridge with both M.A. and M.D.[1]

At the beginning of his career, he was appointed as a physician to Marylebone's Western General Dispensary[6][7] and as a lecturer on forensic medicine and pathology at the Westminster Hospital. Later in his career he was appointed to St George's Hospital as an assistant obstetric physician, as well as a lecturer on obstetric medicine. He was also appointed to London's Hospital for Sick Children (later renamed Great Ormond Street Hospital) as an assistant physician with eventual promotion to full physician.[6]

In 1874[2] he delivered the Goulstonian Lectures[8][9][10] [11][12][13] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.[2]

He spent the years from 1910 to 1924 in retirement in West Drayton.[2] One of his two daughters was the actress Auriol Lee.[6]

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  1. ^ a b c d Biolgraphical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897. CUP Archive. p. 344.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Lee, Robert James (LY859RJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ "Lee, John Irwin (LY862JI)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  4. ^ "Lee, James Francis (LY870JF)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  5. ^ Allibone, S.A. (1896). A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased: From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased: From the Earliest Accounts to the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century. Lippincott. p. 988.
  6. ^ a b c d e "Robert James Lee". Royal College of Physicians of London.
  7. ^ "Western General Dispensary, London". Hospital Records Database, The National Archives, UK.
  8. ^ Lee, R. J. (1875-02-27). "The Goulstonian Lectures on Puerperal Fever. Lecture I". BMJ. 1 (739): 267–270. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.739.267. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 2295552. PMID 20747778.
  9. ^ Lee, R. J. (1875-03-06). "The Goulstonian Lectures on Puerperal Fever. Lecture II". BMJ. 1 (740): 304–306. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.740.304. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 2295497. PMID 20747789.
  10. ^ Lee, R. J. (1875-03-13). "The Goulstonian Lectures on Puerperal Fever. Lecture II.—(Concluded.)". BMJ. 1 (741): 337–339. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.741.337. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 2295635. PMID 20747796.
  11. ^ Lee, R. J. (1875-03-20). "The Goulstonian Lectures on Puerperal Fever. Lecture III". BMJ. 1 (742): 371–373. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.742.371. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 2295595. PMID 20747804.
  12. ^ Lee, R. J. (1875-03-27). "The Goulstonian Lectures on Puerperal Fever. Lecture III. (Continued.)". BMJ. 1 (743): 408–409. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.743.408. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 2295614. PMID 20747811.
  13. ^ Lee, R. J. (1875-04-03). "The Goulstonian Lectures on Puerperal Fever. Lecture III.—(Concluded.)". BMJ. 1 (744): 440–442. doi:10.1136/bmj.1.744.440. ISSN 0959-8138. PMC 2295653. PMID 20747818.
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